On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:49 AM, mike at grounded.net <mike at grounded.net> wrote:
>> I don't follow. Missing display? How is the display *ever* going to
>> work if you don't install the display drivers first?
>> What I mean is that there seems to be two different problems going on.
> One seems to be something to do with a missing display, not missing nvidia drivers. In other words, it's as if the most default display settings aren't even there. The nvidia problem seems to be separate, in getting those drivers to fire up the HDMI output for example but of course, might be related to the other display problem.
Wrong. The display is missing BECAUSE the drivers are missing, so
there's no way X can find the display. It's not a separate issue at
all.